The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1887-06-21
TO EARNEST PRoHIBITIoNIsTs.

expressions criticised by others.
The HERALD has claimed all
along that our own home talent
was sufficient on the stump, and we
are equally strong in the belief that
Texas patriotism is equal to the emer-
gency in financial sense. The state
central committee need money for the
expenses of the campaign, such as are
absolutely necessary in the conduct OF
a great State campaign, however up
right the cause or honest the manage
ment. And the HERALD appeals to
Texas people for the assistance neces-
sary. Fifty thousand dollars could
proftably be expended by the State
committee, and every dollar used in
an open and honorable way. What is
fifty thousand dollars i'll a CAM
paign for state as large as Texas !
Compare it, prohibitionists of Texas,
with the million dollar campaign fund
of the opposition. Should the prohi-
bitionists raise $4,000 for the state
central committee, they would then
have one dollar where tho ants would
expend twenty but with one dollar
to their twenty, the prohibitionists
would win. The money is needed to
pay the travelling expenses of speakers
and the circulation of literature. 1t
is too much to expect speakers to give
their time and the several hundred
dollars which it would be necessary
for each one to spend in the canvass
of a district or state. Every prohibl-
ZIONIST should be willing to share this
expense. One thousand men paying
$40 each, or 500 at an average of 500
each, would be sufficient. Some can
easily. and doubtless will Willingly
give $500. The HERALD wants
to find them. just as we spoke
out early and plainly in OPP
position to the importation of profess
sional prohibition speakers from 9TH
er states, and claimed that our Car
roll, Reagan, Culberson, Lanham, Max
ey, Crawford, Henry, Poindexter, Nu-
gent, Fleming, VanZandt, Swain, Fur
man, and scores of others, were equal
to any men out of the State in point
ofability and far superior in influence
in Texas so do we now express
the opinion that Texas prohibitionists
can take care of their cause financial
as well as regards speakers. The Is
sue in Texas is of National importance
because of the influence through other
States of success or defeat in Texas;
and OH this account the liquor men OF
the United States are sending millions
of money here to aid by every means,
fair or foul, to defeat the amendment.
To offset this outside influence, should
the prohibition people of other States
see fit to make voluntary contribu-
ton to the fund for our prohibition
campaign expenses there can be no OBJ
lection. But the HERALD is certainly
opposed to begging for funds away
from home when our resources in
Texas have scarcely been touched.
Thirty.two hundred dollars is the full
extent of contributions through the
State Central Committee M TO this
time and Waco has given the major
ity of that. Why, Dallas alone
should give $4,000; Fort Worth
and Waco would do equally as well;
Corsicana, Terrell, Sherman, Waxa-
hachie, and every city and town in
Texas. in fair proportion. Let us have
that $4,000. 1t is needed; and State
pride and love for the right aud true
zeal in this cause should put to shame
the man who confesses a desire for
prohibition in Texas, but is not Willing
70 share the cost of a vigorous cam
paign. Let your subscription to the
substantial aid of the canvass, c'm-
pared with your ability to give, be the
measure of your interest in the cause
We have carefully and seriously con-
sidered the matter and believing there
Is merit in the proposition and true
patriotism in the prohibitionists Of
Texas which will lead them to rec
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